Unions welcome U-turn on long Covid payments for healthcare workers

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says the three-month extension will benefit a group of mainly female staff 'still suffering from a myriad of symptoms associated with long Covid'

Talks had been scheduled to take place at the Workplace Relations Commission on Wednesday to discuss union calls for a further extension to the scheme or for the adoption of alternative arrangements that would represent an improvement on the standard sick leave payments available to HSE staff. “Long Covid continues to be a serious health problem for hundreds of healthcare staff. It is a condition without precedent, and creates a challenge both for those workers affected and the health services more generally,” said Fórsa’s national secretary for health and welfare Ashley Connolly.

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